The trouble with the Record Office is that it's a bit like that scene at the end of the first Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Last Ark - You give them something (in my case a large leather ledger book from George White's company ((he put trams on the map)) and they carefully store it away - and that's it. As they admit, they are archivists not historians. So a hollow experience. Why don't they have a volunteer army of retired folk going through all this stuff and filtering out the social stuff hidden in all the facts and figures. Think I'll hold onto the other gems I have collected over the years for deciphering when I'm retired and have nothing else useful to do. Just hope I don't have a house fire....!